January, 2017

Japanese manga and game content localizer Seven Seas Entertainment has announced its license acquisition of Hitoshizuku-P × Yama△ and Tsubata Nozaki’s Hatsune Miku: Bad∞End∞Night, a three-volume gothic mystery manga series featuring Hatsune Miku other Crypton Vocaloids. It will release in single volumes, starting with the first book releasing on May …

On December 8th, VNN attended a conference where Vsinger announced an upcoming concert featuring Luo Tianyi as well as the other Vsinger characters. Pre-sales for the SVIP tickets opened on December 16th and were limited to 500 tickets. All 500 tickets sold out within 3 minutes of the sales opening. …

As of January 10th, the Yuzuki Yukari Racing Project “Ready For?” crowdfunding campaign has come to a close and is no longer accepting donations. Following its conclusion, Takahiro Watanabe, the project organizer, updated the page with the following message to supporters: Our crowdfunding campaign has been going on since last …

1st Place has several plans for the upcoming birthdays of IA and ONE! On January 27th, they will be celebrating IA’s 5th anniversary and ONE’s 2nd anniversary in many ways. Here are some of the things that are planned for both. Live-stream On January 27th at 20:00 Japanese time (6 AM …

On January 10th, 2017, AH-Software made a post on their official Facebook page announcing two new exciting pieces of Yuzuki Yukari merchandise that customers can now pre-order! Yuzuki Yukari Clutch Bag From the AH-Software and MARS16 collaboration series comes the “Yuzuki Yukari Clutch Bag!” Made from polyester and synthetic leather, …

Get ready to sing and dance with your favorite digital singer and her friends all night long, because the rhythm game Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone is now available in the Americas and Europe! A PlayStation®Network exclusive, it kicks off with a bang by giving players 200+ songs for …

December of 2016 was another hot month for new Hatsune Miku songs, and we’ve gathered a list of these songs from nicovideo and organized them by daily popularity. Since some songs would have been uploaded later in the month, it wouldn’t be fair to rank merely by view count alone, …

Crypton Future Media certainly seems excited to celebrate Hatsune Miku’s 10th anniversary later this year, and has just launched a new teaser page on their Peer Professional sharing site, Piapro. The page doesn’t have much for now, just a timer ticking down until Hatsune Miku’s anniversary on August 31st, along …

The official Hatsune Miku YouTube channel has brought us today the music video for Snow Miku 2017 theme song “Star Night Snow” by n-buna and Orangestar! The video features a fantastic animation by AO FUJIMORI and yuiti hinata. The Snow Miku 2017 theme song “Star Night Snow” will be featured in the …

The Nendoroid Hatsune Miku: Lion Dance Version figure was announced during the Miku Expo in Taiwan. Much like Halloween Miku and Harvest Moon Miku before her, she was made as a small homage to one of the Miku Expo locations. She was only available on Good Smile Company’s online shop …

Hatsune Miku mobile games seem to now be the rage in China recently, with “初音速: Roller Skating Music” (初音速 = Hatsune Speed) announced for an upcoming open beta release! The game was teased at Comicup (China’s version of Comiket) in China earlier this month, and is being developed by Miyoo …

An early leak from sellers on Taobao have revealed that SEGA will be releasing a Hatsune Miku prize plushie on February 3rd, 2017. It’s a giant-sized plushie measuring 30cm tall, and styled after the popular “Natural” module outfit, illustrated by KEI for the Project Diva game series. You can find …

About a week ago, the official YouTube channel for the Korean text-to-speech singing synthesizer “Vocalina” began uploading videos. After looking into things some more, it seems the synth may be making a comeback! The YouTube Uploads The official Vocalina YouTube has been uploading videos for about a week now. As …

Miku Expo 2016 China tour in Beijing and Shanghai The final Miku Expo tour from 2016 took place in Shanghai and Beijing on December 3rd~4th and December 10th~11th, respectively, and brought us a refreshing concert experience with the concert setlist featuring 26 songs (4 songs specially sung in Chinese). Below is the complete setlist for …

Quite a few fans noted that there was so much VOCALOID and vocal synth news this year that it was hard to keep up. Somewhere along the line, almost everyone has managed to miss something here or there. Thankfully, VNN is a giant archive of pretty much all of the …